In Episode 6 of Breach Ready Dialogues, Agnidipta Sarkar speaks with Dr. Keri Pearlson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan, about why cyber resilience must go beyond protection and become a board-level priority.
This conversation explores:
• Organizational resilience vs. traditional cybersecurity
• Balanced scorecards for cyber resilience
• Board oversight and accountability
• Tabletop exercises and resilience drills
• Supply chain and vendor risk
• Security culture vs. compliance training
• Microsegmentation and operational continuity
From resilience scorecards to building “resilience muscles” across people, processes, and technology, this episode challenges leaders to assume breach, measure material impact tolerance, and prepare for inevitable disruption.
If you are focused on organizational resilience, board governance, digital transformation, or cyber risk strategy, this discussion will reshape how you think about breach readiness.

Cybersecurity isn’t just about stopping attacks anymore.It’s about surviving them.In our latest episode of Breach Ready Dialogues, Ira Winkler - former NSA analyst, multiple-times CISO, author, and one of the sharpest minds in cybersecurity talks about what really happens during breaches and why “perfect defense” is a myth.Key takeaways from the conversation:1. Nation-state attacks aren’t new. They’re just more patient.2. Many “headline breaches” aren’t technical masterpieces, they’re human failures.3. Attackers don’t need to hack you if they can hack your vendors.4. Logs, preparation, and communication before a breach matter more than tools after it.5. Cyber defense alone is no longer enough: resilience is the new requirement.It’s not “if” you’re breached, it’s whether your business can keep running when it happens.🎙️ Listen to Cybersecurity in Transition: From Defense to Resilience to hear why breach readiness, segmentation, and human awareness are now mission critical.If you’re responsible for security, operations, or risk, this episode is for you.#CyberSecurity #BreachReadiness #CyberResilience #CISO #RiskManagement #Podcast #zerotrust

Modern attacks move fast, spread laterally, and exploit gaps across flat and complex environments. In this episode, we break down how microsegmentation and network detection and response work together to reduce breach impact and stop lateral movement.

Our Chief Evangelist, Agnidipta Sarkar, is joined by Heath Mullins, former Forrester analyst and now Chief Evangelist at ExtraHop, for a candid discussion on how attack techniques are evolving and why detection alone is not enough.

One key takeaway is clear: preventing every breach is unrealistic. What matters is how quickly you can detect malicious activity, contain the blast radius, and recover without disrupting the business.

If you are a CISO, security leader, or architect responsible for protecting modern digital environments, this conversation will challenge how you think about Zero Trust, microsegmentation, network detection, and operational security.

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In this episode of Breach Ready Dialogues, Agnidipta Sarkar, Chief Evangelist at ColorTokens, sits down with renowned cybersecurity analyst Richard Stiennon to unpack what really happens during a breach: the chaos, the scramble, and the hard truths organizations face. From recent attacks impacting JLR, Qantas, and Marks & Spencer to insights from RSA, Colonial Pipeline, and OT environments, Richard draws on 25 years of experience discussing breach readiness, zero trust, OT security gaps, supply-chain compromises, and why microsegmentation is becoming non-negotiable. If you want real-world lessons on cyber resilience from one of the industry’s top voices, this episode is a must-watch.

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🎙️ The Breach Ready Dialogues return with a powerful discussion featuring Agnidipta Sarkar, our Chief Evangelist, and Guru Gurushankar, our SVP & GM, Healthcare & Life Sciences. They unpack one of the most urgent cybersecurity priorities today: reducing the time to achieve breach readiness from months to weeks. This episode breaks down how organizations can prevent breaches and contain spread with ColorTokens + CrowdStrike, including a compelling customer example where ColorTokens instantly visualized their network, triggering both excitement and relief.

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Introducing The Breach Ready Dialogues: a new webinar series where leaders unpack what it really means to be breach ready. Hosted by our Chief Evangelist Agnidipta Sarkar, this series features candid conversations decoding the strategies, tools, and practices that help organizations build resilience.

In Episode 1, Agnidipta is joined by Harish Akali, CTO of ColorTokens, to explore how EDR can evolve into a microsegmentation agent, pushing Zero Trust from theory into practice.

👉 Can EDR go beyond detection to drive Zero Trust microsegmentation?

👉 What challenges and benefits should security leaders prepare for?

💡 Expect bold insights, actionable takeaways, and dialogues you won’t hear anywhere else.

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